It's funny in a morbid way because there exists a South Korea type country in HxH but literally no time is spent on it/I doubt people know it exists.

Oh yeah and the capital of the fake DPRK country is called "Pejing". If Togashi went full liberal and said that the world brought democracy or something then I would have dropped HxH. But really I can only see it as a product of writing during the Bush era and the axis of evil rhetoric. Japanese society has just as incoherent politics as the yankee one.